Monday, April 18, 2011

Advice to future generations from Bertrand Russel

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 – 1970), in a BBC interview, gives advice to future generations. He was a British philosopher, mathematician and social critic. At different points in his life, he was considered a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense. Here, he gives two pieces of advice to future generations, one intellectual and one moral...